Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
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Long Beach High School Football CalPreps Rankings, Week Five

Mike Guardabascio

With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]

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Today’s Long Beach CIF-SS Playoff Schedule: Girls’ Soccer, Basketball

Mike Guardabascio

The playoffs continue for three girls’ basketball and soccer teams today–we’ll have live updates and coverage from the games. Be sure to come back tonight for full coverage! Girls’ Soccer (Second round) Division 1: Millikan @ Los Al, 6 p.m. Division 2: Wilson @ Hart, 3 p.m. Girls’ Basketball (Second round) Division 1: Long Beach […]

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The562.org’s Athletes of the Week

Mike Guardabascio

Congratulations to our winners and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. HIGH SCHOOL Kenny Barnabee, Long Beach Poly Baseball/Soccer It was a big week for Poly’s Kenny Barnabee, who led the Jackrabbits to wins in two sports. He scored a goal in the school’s first-round CIF soccer playoff win then went ⅔ with […]